From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 30 11:15:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB97237B400 for ; Thu, 30 May 2002 11:15:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA10152; Thu, 30 May 2002 11:15:23 -0700 Message-ID: <3CF66C3A.6050804@owt.com> Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 11:15:22 -0700 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020314 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: bbrummer@solar.com.br Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bernardo M. Brummer wrote: > Hi ! > > I would like to upgrade a 4.4 box (and all apps, including KDE 3) to 4.6. > > a) I never had good results with CVS: > 1. New sources were loaded in different directories, which brought compiling > problems. > 2. Upgraded system wouldn't make world. > 3. If I managed to run making world, it wouldn't recompile a new kernel. > 4. If I managed to recompile a new kernel, it would only recompile the > GENERIC source. > 5. The updated system wouldn't run newer apps. (only the ones meant for the > original system). > > b) Updating from iso CD. It updates OK (after some tries) but: > 1. Update will refuse to update kernel sources, so I can't make world again. > 2. Upgraded system becomes less stable. > 3. KDE will run but with lots of warning messages and leaking memory. > > The problem is: that the documentation one finds (handbook, etc) is > outdated, and: CVS, makeworld and/or kernel building is done differently in > each version. > New CVS, makeworld and kernel source merging/upgrading command/switches, are > included or modified from version to version, and as result we have to try > out a number to see the ones that may work. > > c) Therefore, best results were (in the past I hope) just to make a fresh > installation. > > Now the question is: where can I find reliable information on how to upgrade > [4.4 (and all apps, including KDE 3) to 4.6] in less than 12 hours, or > should I better make a fresh install ??.\ The authoritative write up is chapter 19.4.1 in the Handbook. It also points you to /usr/src/UPDATING; however, the pertinent lines in UPDATING are now down around 420 or so. Since you don't say what kind of hardware you have, no one can guess how long a source based upgrade will take. A full upgrade of my system on an AMD 1600+ XP is around 45 minutes and that includes the cvsup of src-all for tag=RELENG_4 through the reboot after running mergemaster. An upgrade of the ports to kde-3 is much slower. You would want to upgrade to XFree86-4.2 at the same time. There is no easy way to do this. This part of your upgrade could easily require 12 hours. You probably could upgrade to XFree86-4.2 and kde-3 using packages. How long it takes to download the tarballs is a function of the network bandwidth. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message